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hello, everyone. i'm beth troutman. it's time for another new half hour of great videos and the stories behind them, "right this minute". >> two chicks go at it outside a bar when holiday cheer turns to fear. >> this fight gets dramatic. >> the terrifying moment when one of them ups the ante. >> a favorite underwater reef for divers. >> almost looks like atlantis. >> get a tour of the world's most unusual cemetery. >> some boaters spot a buoy with something -- >> on top of it. >> why a pelican is not the easiest bird to rescue. >> a bride scarfing down candy, it's not the weirdest part of
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this video. a stuffed animal out tubing, nothing weird about that. . >> at the bar, about 15 to 3:00 in the morning in milwaukee. this university of wisconsin student caught two girls fighting on video. ♪ you can see they're beating each other up. throwing purse straps or something at each other. make their way across the street. the fight continues. >> it's cold outside. why are they fighting? >> i don't know. looks like one is pulling the other one's hair. this fight gets dramatic. one girl gets into that silver car. the other one has a stick or something. looks like she's trying to bang out the head lights and she's successful. notice that, the girl in the car almost hits the girl that banged out the headlight. skchl. >> looks like the silver car is up on the sidewalk and crashing into other cars trying to get away from this person. >> close. what happened is this car backs up, turns around and starts driving on the sidewalk.
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in the process, it nearly hits the girl again and takes out a parking meter. the university of wisconsin student who caught the fight on video talked to wisn about the whole incident. >> clearly when the car started going in the sidewalk, that's where things just started getting out of control, trying to take shots at the person outside the vehicle. then wiping out the parking meter over there. it's pretty intense. it's not something you see every day for sure. >> there's police here now. did they catch up with these people or are they still fighting in the street somewhere some? >> the girl in the silver car took off before police got there. no word from police yet whether or not any charges have been filed in this case. i have two videos that point to this new trend of robberies that i'm going to call the creepy crawlies. this one is in philadelphia. and the robber, as you can see, crawls into this store.
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he broke in through the basement door. >> trying to avoid the camera. you're still caught. >> what a dope. >> he goes over, steals -- >> let me guess, cigarettes. >> bingop. about $800 worth of cigarettes. he did manage to take an undisclosed amount of cash, but yeah, you're right, cigarettes seem to be the target. >> so he's crawling to hide from who knows what, but doesn't bother to cover his face or anything like that? >> right. as you can see this shot right here, we can clearly see his face. someone who knows him, will clearly recognize him. the other video i have is from omaha and same sort of style, creepy crawlers crawling through a hole. they tore through the wall and cal in. >> what? >> what's going on? >> i could even see maybe they don't want to be in the view of a window, but i don't see any windows in this interior office. >> no. at one point one of them gets locked outside the room they are
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trying to rob. they try to h the sa th tryo t steal the coins. they pull it away and look what happens. the bottom of the trash can falls out, coins go everywhere. regroup, put everything in a box and get away. leaving us with a clear shot of their faces. >> in this case going to a watery grave isn't a bad thing. >> give something else other than a reef to go look at. >> you're seeing neptune memorial reef, four miles off the coast of south beach, miami. it's an underground cemetery. >> like if i pass i can request to be buried in this underground cemetery. >> you bet. your cremated remains will be placed in one of 200 plots among these 44 different columns and statutes that they have underneath. it almost looks like atlantis. divers love this spot. it was originally created in 2007 and since then it has turned into a reef.
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miami's wflx talked to a few of the divers that visit this site. >> the growth now is so thick and so when i look at the pictures when it was new and just nice, smooth, was beautiful. and it was artistic. now i go there and go it's a reef. it really is. we watched it turn into a reef. >> which i think makes it even more beautiful because it's alive which is ironic, right. the beauty. you're there resting in peace for eternity but there's all this life around you. >> i wouldn't mind having that done with my remains if i was gone. >> right now neptune memorial reef is only about a quarter of an acre but they plan on expanding this into a 16 acre facility with 5,000 columns and 120,000 plots. >> there's not anything in the world like it. . >> i'm really happy to show you this video. it's a rescue video of a pelican that was stranded after hurricane sandy. >> how does a pelican get stranded after a hurricane? it's a water bird.
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>> it's not clear whether it was injured or not, but these brown pelicans are native to the south and it's believed that hurricane sandy blew several of these pelicans to the rhode island area where they're not supposed to be. it's believed that they had a very long traumatizing journey. they shoot a net at it. . >> got him. >> and it falls into the water. >> i thought that was an air horn they were carrying. >> but then they go at it with a net, they completely miss it. [ bleep ]. >> so as they're trying to pull this off, one of the guys falls off. [ bleep ]. >> the pelican is still in the water, wrapped up in the net they threw at it. this guy has to go pick up his buddy. >> get on the boat. get on the ski. grab the back. you have to climb straight on the back. >> i'm feeling like this pelican might have been better off without these two guys. >> there he is. left left. no. get him.
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get him. >> all right dude. >> do they wind up saving this pelican? >> well after a lot of fighting, they are able to get the pelican on the jet ski. they comfort it. >> hey buddy. we're not going to hurt you. not going to hurt you. >> what's funny about this, after they get the pelican they kept asking each other. is it okay? are you sure you got it? it's okay. >> i got you. he's doing fine. >> all right. he's safe? >> yes. . those are brand new cars on that hauler and the fire station is nowhere nearby. >> the people that you originally see trying to fight the fire are just the driver and the passenger and people trying to help. >> see what happens to a load of brand new cars, next. >> a little snowboarding time if you can overcome the start. >> put it between your legs, ride it up. [ male announcer ] this commercial is not about getting fios, it's about getting fios.
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. often times when we see a brand new car we'll like it and say man that car is on fire. these literally were on fire on a road in poland, a big trailer carrying eight brand new bmws caught on fire and before you know it, a humongous blaze is burning the cargo. >> oh, no. it looked like they had already exhausted the fire extinguishers and then they resorted to throwing snow on it. >> the people that you originally see trying to fight the fire are just the driver and the passenger and people trying to help. but that as you can see didn't help. >> those people picking up the snow were like the original bucket brigade trying to put that thing out. when you got that kind of equipment with that kind of fire power. >> forget it. that stinks. because you know it's like, is my vehicles wagon goi to be in .
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it's close to christmas. >> sorry. >> almost ten minutes later you see one fire truck arrive. turns out it's a volunteer fire department truck. eventually a second fire truck arrives and they are able to put the fire out. but not after almost another ten minutes of fighting this fire. four of the eight cars just burned. >> at least it wasn't eight. >> i cannot believe like these are brand new cars. i wonder if they had a mile. they were probably driven from the factory on to the truck. >> they haven't even had like a good road test yet. >> yeah. >> nope. if you're going out for a day of snowboarding with your buddies you would think it would be the snowboarding part that would be difficult. not the ski lift. this poor guy tries again and again to make it up one of those drag lifts. put it between your legs, ride it up. no. down he goes. the ski lift operator can't believe this. >> especially because there are other people that know what
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they're doing. look how easy. the guy comes up and puts it between his legs and up he goes. >> this video is a few years old but it's so funny and trending again because the guy never makes it up the lift. tubing is a safer easier sport, right? >> she ran in the way of the tube. >> she ducked behind the dude wearing the polar bear costume. i love the polar bears are happy. >> are you okay? are you okay? >> she's like oh beep and runs behind him. watch. and the little boy riding in the tube, he was fine. nick, something incredible happened on the international space station. colonel chris hardfield performed a song with a guitar written by his brother on the international space station, which had not been done before. ♪ wherever we go come around to
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christmas again ♪ >> nobody's ever recorded? i would imagine somebody would have done a harmonica or something. >> to tell us more about this super event we have just like magic, you appear. super z, how did this go down? >> there is kind of a cool history of people taking instruments into the space station. there are been flutes, saxophones, guitars, keyboards, whole bunch of things. this song was written by colonel hardfield's brother, and he wrote it for the first crew that went to the space station. >> it's not zero gravity. it's micro gravity. small difference. but the astronauts say there's really not a big difference in the way it sounds, the physics of sound work up there the same. >> why hasn't this been done before? >> it is hard to get instruments into space. weight is a big issue. a long process making sure the instruments are safe and secure, guitars that are flammable.
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even wood wind instruments you have to take precautions. if you're playing a flute and blow you're going to start moving around. . >> driving down a very tiny, narrow road. no room for error. >> see what happens after a bus does make room for error. and remember this favorite? >> rock 'em sock 'em robots. >> cool. >> can i play? >> no! >> the story behind the new rock 'em sock 'em commercial.
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. this is a sand bar deer in india. it's been injured by humans. you can see cuts and bruises and wounds. >> that's a big deer. >> that is a big deer. >> why are they poking it with a stick? >> at first you think something bad is going on here. s they villagers came together to figure out how to help this deer. >> hard to watch it laying there. everyone is trying to help it. it doesn't know that. it's probably terrified, probably in pain. >> what they did was transport the deer more than 15 miles. they tie its legs so it doesn't get off and try to run away and further injure itself. . >> you can see how many men it takes to lift this deer into the back of this truck they do have a little comfy bed made for him with hay and straw
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so the deer can be comfortable. they took the deer to a forest department so the deer could be cared for and released back into the wild. >> it's commendable that they went through all this trouble to get this deer on the truck and take it to an organization that could actually help it survive because they could have just left it there. . i have two videos not from the u.s. the first one is from russia. police car chase. icy roads. crazy. >> crazy and it's common. >> just another day in russia basically. but what we haven't seen on the show, really is a russian car chase. >> sure. >> this black car that they're chasing is according to the poster of the video, a taxicab that was driving erratically. >> at night. >> at night. visibility, not all that great. of course, what do we expect to happen? >> it can't end well if it's on this show. >> he pulls into this garage
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driveway it looks like, but then pulls out and gets away. police continue to chase after this driver and finally it crashes into those cars. open the door, they pull the driver out. it's crazy. later they found out this guy was operating as a taxi, but the taxi sign at the top, fake. >> did anybody think that driving erratically happened to be icy snowy roads. >> in russia. >> they can't help it. >> even to them that was erratic. this video is from korea. this driver is pulling into a very tiny, narrow road. no room for error. you'd think. >> oh. >> you're kidding me. >> before you know it, this car is driving in the direction. there's a bus crashing through the other cars, mangling one car to the side, coming straight at him and just in the nick of time manages to pull into this alley. >> that's incredibly lucky and a lot of destruction too.
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that bus was flying. >> a couple of things going on here. you have a bride and groom who's either shell shocked or confused. but i love that the bride has some candy. she feeds it to the groom. how nice. but apparently somebody's a little jealous. i have a feeling this cat wasn't invite ed but she's like i'll give you candy, and throws it away. >> normally it's birds, doves, people are feeding with the bird seed and then it's just beautiful and -- but the cat? >> listen to the laughter. everybody was pretty amused by this. . >> quick thinking on the bride's part. she threw some so the cat would get out of her way. next thing you know the cat is going to start crawling up that dress. >> the cat comes back. they always come back. . it's a heartbreaking photo of -- >> an owl.
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jammed in the front of an f-150 pick-up. >> but there's a happy ending to the rescue that's being called -- >> a christmas
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remember the guys that had a huge pile of leaves and they jumped on them. >> yeah. >> now they're back with a gigantic christmas prank. >> this year my mom didn't have any surprises to unwrap so we decided to wrap her house. >> 3,000 square feet of wrapping paper. >> they did the walls, the
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shutters. do i see them doing the roof? i'm a terrible gift wrapper. my gifts come out looks like as loose saggy diaper. they wrapped the whole house. >> 500 feet of duct tape, three full days from sun up to sun down. >> so what was mom's reaction? >> here it is. they set this video to "dance of the sugar plum fairy". >> merry christmas. >> look at her face. >> like what happened to my house? >> wonder what it is? but if they paid for all of that wrapping paper why didn't they buy her a present? >> it made their mom smile and it was a cool prank. it was cool. >> watch out in vermo. a lot o animals o th road. t especially difficult to avoid for one driver. >> oh. >> that's an owl. jammed in the front of an f-150 pick-up. the driver was going about 55 miles an hour when the owl swooped down to chase some prey.
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the driver hit it. he was surprised because when he got out of his truck, he realized the owl was still alive. he went to pull the owl out and he saw the poor owl moving. he immediately called fish and wildlife authorities and they showed up. wcax talked to the person who rescued this owl. >> i just grabbed hold of the tail with one had hand and he popped the hood and i was able to reach inside and grab around the head and another hand to keep the beak away from us and he pulled back the grill and we were able to push it later. >> hours later the owl flew away on its own. a lot of owls don't survive these. greg rehabilitates injured birds like this and does his best to return them to the wild. >> there's not going to be any intervention that we can do to get the wings well enough to go back into the wild. >> they have injuries too severe to go back in the wild. >> like most of our birds they go to a vet, get a radio graph,
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determine how bad the break is, whether or not it is something we can do surgical intervention. >> yeah. >> what are the odds you're going to be driving and there's going to be an owl and you're going to crash into each other but it's going to survive. that's a christmas miracle. >> monster the window wiper. ♪ >> it's the toy that everyone wants for christmas. the easy bake oven? >> no. >> the rock 'em sock 'em robots. >> did somebody say rock 'em sock 'em robots? >> yeah. >> cool. >> can i play? >> no. >> but you can watch awkwardly over our shoulders while we do. >> okay. >> you're watching this thinking, what an awesome commercial. >> only a few basic ground rules. number one, you have to have something to fight over. it can be anything. your car, your girlfriend, my
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wallet. >> my girlfriend? >> your girlfriend. >> great idea. >> these guys, they were shooting a short film and they were taking a break and this was just kind of an impromptu thing. this isn't something they sat down and planned and wrote out. >> i love your girlfriend. . >> i love the guy, awkwardly looking over the shoulder. >> it's true. i was always the kid that wanted it and never got to play with it and sit there and watch. >> one of our own rtm editors sergio gomez was behind the camera and put this together. . >> come on. >> they do poke fun at some of the very original rock 'em sock 'em robot commercials. >> the world's only boxing robots. >> the world's only fighting robots. >> robocop, irobot, johnny 5. >> rock 'em sock 'em robots.
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>> that's it for today but we leave you with the top music video in the country. bruno mars, "locked out of heaven." see you next time. ♪ for so long, long long yeah you make me feel like i've been locked out of heaven ♪ ♪ for so long ♪ for so long ♪ oh, yeah yeah, yeah ♪ oh, yeah yeah
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